I applied online. I interviewed at Binance (Singapura) in Feb 2022
Interview
Interview process was quick and smooth, 1 recruiter call followed by 2 technical rounds (leetcode round and sys des round) with a senior dev and the tech lead respectively. Both interviewers are friendly,
knowledgeable, and shown interest to the interview, keen to point out how they think solutions can be improved and actively engaged in discussion. I enjoyed the conversation and the interview.
Recruiter him/herself needs improvement. After I told the recruiter my number, the recruiter literally forgot to forward it to management for nearly a week, until I pinged him/her to check the status. Regardless how many interviewees this recruiter is handling, this is simply not professional and shows that the recruiter does not value talents much.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode round starts from an easy question that built up to a leetcode hard and the solution is a hit/miss, if you know the algo you can solve it, if not you will never solve it.
Approached me for an interview, I did not apply for it explicitly. Sent me an invite, not much explanation on the interview. During the interview, the interviewer said "you are so confident, aren't you?" in a patronizing, condescending, cocky tone. During live coding section, interviewer went missing for awhile when I asked questions. No rejection e-mail either, completely ghosted.
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Question 1
How sure are you that you are ready for this role?
bad, disrespectful. interviewer was late and kept asking non related questions. Every question was disconnected and interviewer did not turn on camera. Also speak chinese during the whole interview, mumbling throughout couldn’t understand anything.
The interviewer started the interview by speaking in Mandarin, which was not what i expected as the recruiter spoke to me in English and didn't inform me that the interview would be conducted in Mandarin.
There were quite a few communication problems through the interview as i struggled a little to understand the technical terms in mandarin, since i am not from China and learned computer science in English.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding question was ok: merge lists, find out whether a number in listA is smaller than in listB, etc.
However, i was asked some pretty difficult questions later on. Eg, Redis operations (which i obviously couldn't answer due to no experience with redis), ways to prevent double booking, rate limiting in a distributed environment (how to track all the counters)...
